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Archive for December, 2016
So, who is this Noel geezer ?
Posted by Big John on December 22, 2016
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A Chilli Christmas !
Posted by Big John on December 15, 2016
I can remember a time when the most exotic thing to appear on the Christmas dining table was the ‘brandy butter’ to accompany the Christmas pudding and mince pies; and the only thing needed to ‘spice up’ the ham sandwiches at our family gatherings on Christmas Eve was my mum’s ‘home pickled’ onions.
Now just about every festive dish has to be mucked about with by stuffing it full of ‘blow yer ‘ead orf’ spices or overpowering flavours from ingredients which, once, could only be found in the far flung corners of the British and Ottoman Empires or perhaps “down Mexico way”.
As much as I love most foreign food I don’t want my turkey stuffed with jalapenos, my parsnips curried, my ham boiled in coconut milk or my roast spuds coated in guacamole.
There is a saying that “Too many cooks spoil the broth”, but this is more of a case that ‘Too many TV chefs could …
… ruin your Christmas !’
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Sounds about right.
Posted by Big John on December 6, 2016
The following is my list, in no particular order, of my favourite ten quotations …
- “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” – Denis Diderot
- “Old age ain’t no place for sissies.” – Bette Davis
- “Youth is wasted on the young.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “Hell is other people.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
- “A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.” – Rudyard Kipling
- “Anyone who hates children and animals can’t be all bad.” – W.C. Fields
- “Conceit is an outward manifestation of inferiority.” – Noël Coward
- “If I had no sense of humour, I would long ago have committed suicide.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Oh ! .. and one epitaph, on the grave of Spike Milligan …
“I told you I was ill”
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